On Development: Developing better health care and hospitals
Despite the hospital construction projects all over the state, residents across most of Ohio are no closer to health care – and many are even further removed from hospitals.
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Local Politics: Proposed trade partnership with Israel draws criticism
A bill to create an Ohio-Israel trade partnership is under review in the State Senate. Reactions in the city have been mixed at best.
‘I am not going to stand before God and say, well, I chickened out’: Reflections on building caring coalitions
More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind.
The problem with the CDC prohibiting ‘never use alone’
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly told recipients of overdose prevention funding that they may no longer be allowed to promote the message that has become one of the pillars of harm reduction.
On Development: Of salad greens and sensible growth
Many developers and sellers confuse demand for a certain type of housing and a willingness to buy. There are hundreds of thousands of people in central Ohio who prefer older houses and apartments.
How Wexner’s desire for a city center led to a more fragmented Columbus
As the central Ohio retail magnate faces a larger public reconciliation owing to his ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a look back at how the Wexner name became so synonymous with the city.
Local Politics: The fallout of serving ICE(d) coffee
A local coffee chain has been under fire for saying it would not refuse to serve ICE agents. But the people who work there say that’s not the full story.
Ohio’s Recovery: The past, present, and future of the overdose crisis
Fewer people are dying from overdose, but the policies and the social determinants of health did not vanish.
Opinion: When unionization isn’t enough
Collective bargaining can protect journalists from arbitrary firings, stagnating wages, and unsafe or exploitative working conditions. But a union contract cannot fix a broken funding model.
On Development: Cars can’t take us where we need to go
The billions of dollars of new road improvements cited in MORPC’s analysis 26 years ago have already been spent, and now we’re still looking at the same challenges with more people and more roads.
Local Politics: Proposed trade partnership with Israel draws criticism
A bill to create an Ohio-Israel trade partnership is under review in the State Senate. Reactions in the city have been mixed at best.
‘I am not going to stand before God and say, well, I chickened out’: Reflections on building caring coalitions
More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind.
The problem with the CDC prohibiting ‘never use alone’
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly told recipients of overdose prevention funding that they may no longer be allowed to promote the message that has become one of the pillars of harm reduction.
On Development: Of salad greens and sensible growth
Many developers and sellers confuse demand for a certain type of housing and a willingness to buy. There are hundreds of thousands of people in central Ohio who prefer older houses and apartments.
How Wexner’s desire for a city center led to a more fragmented Columbus
As the central Ohio retail magnate faces a larger public reconciliation owing to his ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a look back at how the Wexner name became so synonymous with the city.
Local Politics: The fallout of serving ICE(d) coffee
A local coffee chain has been under fire for saying it would not refuse to serve ICE agents. But the people who work there say that’s not the full story.
Ohio’s Recovery: The past, present, and future of the overdose crisis
Fewer people are dying from overdose, but the policies and the social determinants of health did not vanish.
Opinion: When unionization isn’t enough
Collective bargaining can protect journalists from arbitrary firings, stagnating wages, and unsafe or exploitative working conditions. But a union contract cannot fix a broken funding model.
On Development: Cars can’t take us where we need to go
The billions of dollars of new road improvements cited in MORPC’s analysis 26 years ago have already been spent, and now we’re still looking at the same challenges with more people and more roads.